Question

What is the difference between mass and weight?

Answer 1

Mass is the amount of material within an object, and is independent of gravity. Weight is how much force gravity exerts on that object, which is found with

(`"weight" = overbrace("mass ")^"in kilograms" * overbrace(" gravitational acceleration")^(= 9.81color(white)(l)"m/s"^2)`)

Or

`ulbar(|stackrel(" ")(" "w = mg" ")|)`